RUTH DUNNE wrote: > Helo List Members; > > Has anyone any knowledge of a these place names in Aberdeenshire North >> > Auchnie Bogs and / or Smarties Wells. This would be prior to 1855. I am > trying to find the locale in Aberdeenshire . This is from Family Lore which > is sometimes almost accurate >grin. I have tried unsuccesfully to find a > reference on Google / Genuki As ever, with placename enquiries (and indeed with just about any genealogical query) finding the answer would be a great deal easier if you told us more about the sources from which you got these names, in particular the parish or parishes where they occurred. I am afraid "Aberdeenshire North" is not a very helpful label. I could make a tentative identification of "Auchnie Bogs", but "Smarties Wells" does rather look like a misreading. If we could tie them down to a specific parish or parishes, it might be easier to identify them. Gavin Bell